Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!hao!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm!orion.bitnet!ken From: KEN@ORION.BITNET (Kenneth Ng) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Living near high tension lines Message-ID: <64KEN@ORION> Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 06:17:22 EST Article-I.D.: ORION.64KEN Posted: Wed Nov 18 06:17:22 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 15:04:58 EST Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology Lines: 18 >From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) >I suspect it would be electric, not magnetic field effects that >matter, mainly from the propaganda stuff I have seen with people >walking under high-tension lines holding Flourescent tubes and having >them glow... someone want to work out that math? > > Mark Eichin > Lighting a flourescent bulb doesn't take much. My dad's electric fence took the output of a car ignition pulsed at 1 millisecond, cycle time 1 second. After going through a fence about 20 feet long, holding one end near the fence would create dim flashes from the end to where your hand held the bulb.